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I grew up in a very diverse suburb and went to schools where no race made up more than 40% of the student population. It's blatantly obvious to anyone who grew
by causality0 6y ago
I grew up in a very diverse suburb and went to schools where no race made up more than 40% of the student population. It's blatantly obvious to anyone who grew up with Asian friends that Asian immigrant cultures, in general, place an enormous emphasis on academic achievement. My Asian friends had a hell of a lot less fun and free time at home than I did. That work was reflected in higher grades. It's not Asian students' fault that mainstream white and black culture in the US is less suited to institutional performance.
It's like if you had purple-striped people who all spent their after-school time at the shooting range and then wondered why the army is full of purple-striped people.
- crossroadsguy 6y ago> purple-striped people I Googled. What does it mean? Is it some American reference, or you picked a random race/region neutral analogy?
- manfredo 6y agoThese anecdotes are backed up by empirical observations: https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2010/2010015/indicator5_19.asp https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2010/2010015/indicator5_19.asp https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2010/2010015/tables/table_19_1.asp https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2010/2010015/tables/table_19_1.asp https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2017/08/10/analyzing-the-homework-gap-among-high-school-students/ https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2017/...
- tupputuppu 6y agoIt's more likely due to genes than culture or parenting as adoption studies show: https://medium.com/@syedmhamzatahir/iqs-of-east-asians-5fe6067ca111 https://medium.com/@syedmhamzatahir/iqs-of-east-asians-5fe60...
- causality0 6y agoLinking intelligence and academic performance to genes in the current cultural climate is a bit like suggesting the earth orbits the sun in sixteenth-century Italy. It's not going to end well for you.